context of contract law‚ with references to the matter of Thomas v Thomas from 1842. In assigning significance to these matters‚ it is noted that Sir John Patteson‚ a judge in 1830 who was appointed to the Court of King’s Bench‚ (later the Privy Council) was knighted shortly after making the landmark decision regarding the doctrine of consideration in the case of Thomas. The ratio decidendi in Thomas‚ was ‘[c]onsideration must be of value and involve benefit or detriment’ postulating further that
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which gives everything its value.” This quote by Thomas Paine is saying that everything we can get our hands on easily is appreciated too much‚ and that the value of the things we get should be measured by the amount of effort we put forth to obtain it. I too‚ like Thomas Paine‚ believe that the things that people value the most is those things which they have worked hard to obtain. This sentimental value can and should be more important to people than the objects monetary value. When people work
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Book value: The book value of ordinary share is the net worth of a corporation less the par value of preference shares outstanding divided by the number of ordinary shares outstanding. Suppose the net worth of a company contains the following information viz; Preference shares (Rs. 100 per share): 1000000.00 Ordinary share (Rs.5 per share): 1500000.00 Share premium:
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Cryonics (often mistakenly called "cryogenics") is the practice of cryopreserving humans or animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future. The process is not currently reversible. Cryonics can only be performed on humans after clinical death‚ and a legal determination that further medical care is not appropriate (legal death). The rationale for cryonics is that the process may be reversible in the future if performed soon enough
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Value Engineering History‚ Evolution‚ and Today’s Principles Chad C. Dobbins January 3‚ 2012 Table of Contents Page Abstract ………….………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4 Value Engineering Principles ………………………………………………………………….. 7 FAST Diagram Models …………………………………………………………………………………. 12 Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 17 References …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Expirement 1 Fluid Properties: Density and Surface Tension Table of Contents: OBJECTIVE 1 THEORY 2-3 PROCEDURE 4-6 RESULTS 7-8 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 9 APPENDIX 10 OBJECT: The object of this experiment was to determine the density of a fluid by performing three different methods and use that determined density to calculate the surface tension of the fluid. THEORY: The density of any substance is defined as the mass per unit volume and is denoted by ρ. ρ = m / V (1) m is the mass
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When Thomas Edison was working on the invention of the light bulb he said‚ “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10‚000 ways that won’t work.” Even though Thomas Edison did not call his mistakes failures‚ he learned from them‚ and continued to try other combinations until he finally succeeded. People fail‚ just like Thomas Edison‚ but they can make the choice to learn from their mistakes. William Zinsser‚ the author of “College Pressures” discusses the importance and value failure can have in people’s
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The Value of Life The value of human life is still a mystery and we as a society is still trying to figure it out. During early times‚ life was not valued at all. People were being turned into slaves and treated like nothing. In today’s world though‚ we base the value of life by our achievements‚ one’s past‚ or the salary one receives. This shouldn’t be the way we value one’s life. We as a society cannot assign a value on one’s life. Money cannot buy happiness. In the article “What Is a Life Worth”
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James H. Shideler examines the sharpening rural-urban tensions in the 1920s America in his essay “Flappers and Philosophers‚ and Farmers: Rural-Urban Tensions of the Twenties” published in 1973. He begins with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Flappers and Philosophers that represented the “age of wonderful nonsense” and reflected the rapid modernization in the 20s. The essay is an agricultural history piece that primarily focuses on the rural experience‚ reactions‚ and transformations in a period of increasingly
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MYP Personal Project For my Personal Project I wanted to do something with the community that had something dealing with giving. I want collect 500 shirts and pants to donate to the Salvation Army. For me to be able to complete this job I would have to make sure that I stay in contact with the Salvation Army. If you don’t stay in contact they will forget about everything. I’m also going to ask the Wal-Mart on Powder Springs rd. to see if I can use their property so that I can have an event so
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